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About 10 million adults smoke cigarettes (about a quarter of the population) and smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK. 

Figures show that approximately 114,000 people in the UK die from smoking related diseases every year. Smoking not only affects the health of the individual who smokes, but the health of anyone else who breaths in the smoke around them (known as passive smoking). Smokers only inhale about 15% of the smoke from cigarettes, with the other 85% being absorbed into the atmosphere, or inhaled by other people1. 

Ways to Stop Smoking Cigarettes & Quit Smoking for Good | Reader's Digest

For all the intense efforts to reduce smoking in America over the past two decades, the progress has not been stellar. Today one in four men and one in five women still smoke.

For those who never smoked, this is a befuddling fact. Don’t smokers understand that cigarettes are the number one killer in America, that they dramatically increase risk for heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, and almost every other health concern, small or large? How could any habit be worth this?

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Every year in the U.S. over 392,000 people die from tobacco-caused disease, making it the leading cause of preventable death. Another 50,000 people die from exposure to secondhand smoke. Tragically, each day thousands of kids still pick up a cigarette for the first time. The cycle of addiction, illness and death continues. What can be done to stop smoking? The American Lung Association is working to strengthen laws and policies that protect everyone from secondhand smoke and prevent young people from starting. We are also committed to helping smokers quit with our smoking cessation programs.

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Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update includes new, effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence and the latest information to help people quit smoking.

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Kentucky News Review: Electronic cigarettes may be effective for stopping smoking

New York Times science columnist John Tierney writes about electronic cigarettes and their use as a method to stop smoking. The Food and Drug Administration has ruled the e-cigarettes are a "drug delivery device" that could not be marketed until its safety and efficacy could be demonstrated in clinical trials, but some experts do not agree. Brad Rodu , a professor of medicine at the University of Louisville, said, "It’s time to be honest with the 50 million Americans, and hundreds of millions around the world, who use tobacco. ...The benefits they get from tobacco are very real, not imaginary or just the periodic elimination of withdrawal. It’s time to abandon the myth that tobacco is devoid of benefits, and to focus on how we can help smokers continue to derive those benefits with a safer delivery system." Doctor and University of Kentucky professor at the college of public health, James W. Holsinger, writes for Roll Call that a model for cost-efficient and effective health care is found at the Department of Veterans Affairs. "The VA has led the way in various areas of health care, including implementing electronic medical records back in the 1980s. Of interest to the joint [budget] committee, however, is the VA’s extraordinary Home Based Primary Care program. ... The Home Based Primary Care program targets aging veterans who are battling complex chronic diseases. Importantly, HBPC serves these veterans not in costly hospital or nursing home settings but in their own homes. As a result, participating veterans receive timely care by an interdisciplinary care team without the risk of infection that is unfortunately so common in institutional settings," writes Holsinger. KyForward reports on Lexington music producer Duane Lundy and his 10in20 project. Lundy records ten local musical groups then compiles their work on vinyl. Lundy has recorded sessions with Matt Duncan, Coralee and the Townies and Sunday Valley . Lundy said to KyForward : "The main idea, and purpose for the project initially was to showcase what a wondrous amount of musical talent that is here in Lexington. The other purpose came from my own desire to work with what I consider to be Lexington’s finest musical talent, and produce them in a way that befits my production style, and would allow creative freedoms for the artist." More on heavy-weight boxer Joe Frazier , who died Monday, and his long-time grudge against Louisville-born Muhammad Ali . The Daily Mail recalls the details of the Thrilla in Manila boxing match between Frazier and Ali. "In boxing terms they were perfectly matched, but when it came to verbal sparring the ‘Louisville Lip’ could reduce Frazier to stammering incoherence — and his cruellest onslaughts came on the eve of the last of their three epic fights; the so-called Thrilla In Manila ." Comments

Herb Wesson may have to quit smoking

The long-awaited ascension to power of Councilman Herb Wesson could be verified this week when the City Council votes whether to make him the next president, effective Jan. 2.

And it will mean big changes, at least for Wesson.

Wesson often slips out of council meetings for a smoking break. But, with smoking banned in city buildings he said the new job -- which requires him to be present to run the meetings -- could force a radical change.

STOP program puts the brakes on smoking - Sudbury Local News

Smokers from across Ontario have the opportunity to receive free nicotine replacement therapy as part of the STOP (Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients) program.

For many smokers, the cost of nicotine replacement products is a barrier to quitting, according to a press release from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

WHO vows support for countries that continue to fight smoking

WHO has been "gearing up" to support countries that have fought tobacco firms by passing laws for high taxes for sin products, and for imposing warning about the dangers of smoking on cigarette packets By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief Published: 16:22 October 10, 2011

Manila: The World Health Organization vowed support for countries that continue to fight smoking, adding that Southeast Asia, other Asian countries, and the Pacific region must unite against tobacco firms' new efforts to pursue legal battle against anti-smoking measures in the region.

What Happens to Your Body If You Stop Smoking Right Now? (Update!)

Hey, Blisstree Reader! We thought you might like these three new posts we just published: Can I Become An Ex-Smoker? Watch Me Try ,  Top 7 Smoking Myths That Stop You From Quitting and What Happens to Your Body When You Drink a Coke Every Day, For a Long Time .

This is the first in a series of posts by Bill from California, a Blisstree reader, former smoker, and active member of our passionate community of commenters.

Smoking ban in Delaware County bars, clubs upheld

A judge in Muncie has denied a request for a temporary injunction against a smoking ban in Delaware County's taverns and fraternal organizations.

The Star Press reports Delaware Circuit Judge Marianne Vorhees denied a request to block an enhanced smoking ordinance passed by Delaware County commissioners in August.

Indian actor vows to quit smoking

Popular Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, who is a self-confessed chain smoker, says he is going to kick the habit following the release of his latest movie, reports British entertainment news portal Digital Spy.

Citing an interview Khan recently gave to an English-language Indian broadsheet, Digital Spy notes the celebrity actor is determined to quit smoking after his next movie Ra.One hits the screen later this month. One of the characters in the movie is a heavy smoker.

Public health offers stop smoking classes

The Ventura County Public Health Tobacco Education, Prevention, Policy, Cessation program offers free eight-week stop smoking classes and free 10 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy product (patches, gum or lozenges). Up to $125 is reimbursed on pharmaceutical products.

This program is free to anyone 18 and older who lives or works in Ventura County.

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On July 5 Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport will go smoke-free | Suffolk Times

Smoking in the hospital has long been verboten, and pretty soon there will be no lighting up anywhere near the facility.

On July 5 Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport will go smoke-free, meaning smoking will not be permitted anywhere on hospital grounds.

Tobacco firm backs anti-smoking programs

PHILIP Morris-Fortune tobacco Company Inc. (PMFTCI), one of the biggest cigarette companies in the Philippines, supports national no-smoking programs.

Despite being a tobacco company, PMTC Inc. does not promote their product to non-smokers and even to minors.

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Local NHS helps 6,000 smokers to quit

New figures reveal that more than 6,000 people from Nottinghamshire successfully quit smoking last year thanks to support from their local NHS.

NHS Nottinghamshire County has over-achieved its stop smoking target by 8% for 2010/11; helping 6,080 smokers to quit. This equates to 16 people every day kicking the habit.

E-cigarettes help smokers quit, but draw unlikely critics

If you want a truly frustrating job in public health, try getting people to stop smoking. Even when researchers combine counseling and encouragement with nicotine patches and gum, few smokers quit.

Recently, though, experimenters in Italy had more success by doing less. A team led by Riccardo Polosa of the University of Catania recruited 40 hard-core smokers - ones who had turned down a free spot in a smoking-cessation program - and simply gave them a gadget already available in stores for $50. This electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette, contains a small reservoir of liquid nicotine solution that is vaporized to form an aerosol mist.

Telford smoking cessation clinic risks a ??400,000 bill

Services to help people in Telford stop smoking have proved so successful that health bosses could eventually find themselves facing a bill of ??400,000.

So many people are signing up for help in quitting that NHS Telford and Wrekin’s stop smoking scheme has already gone over budget by more than ??48,000 and it could rise. But the trust is still struggling to get pregnant women to give up the habit.

Ban's health effects already evident

The smoking ban approved by South Dakota voters last November appears to have had immediate effects on the state's public health.

Among the most direct effects of the ban is less smoking, because smokers have fewer places to light up.

Cigarette sales have plummeted almost 10 percent since the ban took effect, falling from 39 million packs in 2010 to 35 million in 2011. That is 75 million fewer cigarettes smoked.

Glasgow woman vows to quit smoking after husband??s death

Linda Gilmour of King??s Park helplessly witnessed her husband perish to lung cancer and is determined now to end her longtime addiction to nicotine, reports the Glasgow Evening Times.

Ms. Gilmour, who is now 55, tells the Scottish tabloid in an interview that she has been smoking 10 cigarettes per day for the last 38 years of her life but feels it??s time she quits, admitting that seeing her husband John suffer agonisingly pushed her to take the quit decision. She has enrolled herself in a local government-run smoking cessation programme for help and support in quitting.